[Northkeep] Period texts FW: digitized list, part one

Niewoehner, Hugh hughn at ssd.fsi.com
Mon Jun 25 06:00:23 PDT 2007


Brief background...

Alban's SCA hobby (well, at least one of them) is hunting down and aquiring period manuscripts...then scanning them and making those scans available to the rest of us.  

He also has done a fasinating paper he's published on period oath's of fealty and hommage.

On with his announcement...

	Damon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Eisenstein [mailto:alban at socket.net] 
> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 3:05 PM
> Subject: digitized list, part one
> 
> (Permission granted to copy this list to anyone y'all think 
> might be interested, whether or not they're in the SCA - 
> musicians, makers of books, liturgists, historians, scribes,
> whoever.)
> 
> I realized a week or two ago that I've never posted a 
> complete list of what's been digitized, so. . .
> 
> Listed below is a list of books and manuscripts that I've 
> digitally photographed, in whole or in part, current as of 24 
> June 2007 (i.e., more books and manuscripts will be added as 
> they arrive).
> Samples of some of them may be seen at 
> http://pics.livejournal.com/tedeisenstein/
> The photographs are available via CD-ROM or DVD-ROM; the 
> whole set fits on three DVD's. If you'd like the complete 
> set, or any portion(s) thereof, let me know by sending me 
> what you'd like, and your postal address. I'm not charging 
> for them, for now; if a lot of people write in, I may change 
> my mind. . .
> And, as always, if anyone wants to come by and paw through, 
> errr, carefully examine any of these (and others as yet 
> unphotographed), you're certainl welcome to.
> 
> Religious Books, some liturgical, some not:
> 
> Book of Hours (1400?) (One two-page and one single-page 
> illumination, both photographed, as are some typical pages)
> 
> Breviary (illuminated), by and for noble ladies (1415) 
> (Calendar and some typical pages
> photographed.)
> 
> Breviary for monastic use in the diocese of Liege (1450) (A 
> few typical pages photographed) Manuscript on vellum [Diocese 
> of Liege, c. 1450]. Small 4to (130 x 90 mm).
> 
> Manuale Baptisterium secundum morem Romane 
> Ecclesie...cum...vulgari admonitione (published
> 1562) (Most of the woodblock illustrations and a bit of the 
> music and text have been digitized)
> 
> Missal: Misale ad vsum insignis ecclesie Sarisburiensis 
> (published 1555) (Photographed just the woodblock 
> illustrations, including some spiff capital letters) 3 parts 
> in one volume, 2o (340 x 223mm), printed in red and black,
> 
> Missal: Missae episcopales pro sacris ordinibus confrendis 
> (1563) (just illustrations) Venice Heirs of Luc' Antonio 
> Giunta 1563 (Woodblocks photographed)
> 
> Missal: Missale ad Sacrosancte Romane ecclesie Vsum 
> (published 1529) (just illustrations)
> 
> Pontifical, use of Rome (1478) (Completely photographed) All 
> handwritten except for the capital letters, which would have 
> been illuminated, don't exist; the bishop for whom it was 
> being created moved away before it was finished. There are a 
> number of marginal notes, words and sections crossed out, 
> emendations, deletions, additions. Nice book. All 700-odd 
> pages of it.)
> 
> Pontifical: Pontificale Romanum Ad Omnes Pontificias 
> Caeremonias, during the pontificate of Gregory XIII 
> (published 1582) (Just woodblock illustrations photographed)
> 
> Processional: Liber processionum secundum Ordine[m] Fratru[m] 
> Predicatorum. (Spain, 1494)
> [Seville: : Meynardum Ungut Alamanum et Stanislaum Polonum 
> socios, 3 April 1494]. (Wholly photographed; lots of text, 
> lots of music.) I
> 
> Processional: Processionarium s[e]c[un]d[u]m morem almi 
> ordinis predicator[um] nuper impressum. Atq[ue] per quosdam 
> predicti ordinis fratres solertissime correctum & emendatu(m):
> cu[m] quibusdam in eo decenter additis. (Completely 
> photographed; a mixture of text and music.) A rare Dominican 
> liturgy, with two large woodcuts and large music notes, all 
> beautifully printed in black and red.
> 
> Psalter of the Virgin (1490) (A few illuminations and a 
> couple of typical pages photographed; handwritten and illuminated.)
> 
> Psalter: Ingoldisthorpe Psalter (1465. The Netherlands, for 
> an English client.) Illuminations en grisaille. 
> (Illuminations, calendar, and a few typical pages photographed)
> 
> Rituum Ecclesiasticorum Sive Sacrarum Cerimoniarum S. S. 
> Romanae Ecclesiae Libri Tres Non Ante Impressi (published 
> 1516) (Title page and 3 woodblock illustrations photographed.) 1516.
> 
> Non-religious books:
> 
> Altamiras, Juan, Nuevo arte de cocina sacado de las escuela 
> de la experiencia economica, Barcelona; Thomas Piferrer, 
> publ., 1770. (A Spanish cookbook. Digitized wholly, and I 
> have a dozen or so printed copies, courtesy of Kinko's.)
> 
> Guidetti, Giovanni Domenico, Directorium Chori Ad Usum 
> OmniumEcclesiarum Cathedralium, & Collegiaturum...In Hac 
> Postrema Editione A Canonico Florido De Sylvestris, Rome; 
> 1642. (Wholly
> digitized) "The plainsong publications of the Palestrina 
> pupil Giovanni Domenico Guidetti (1530-1592) are among the 
> most authoritative of their kind from the time after the 
> Council of Trent. Foremost among them is the Directorium 
> Chori, first published in 1582." Quite a bit of music, a bit of text.
> 
> Marcos y Navas,Francisco, Arte, ó compendio general del 
> canto-llano, figurado, y organo, en método facil, ilustrado 
> con algunos documentos, ó capítulos muy precisos para el 
> provechamiento, y enseñanza. Dividido en cinco tratados, de 
> los que el primero manifiesta la teórica del canto-llano: el 
> segundo su práctica, con el oficio de difuntos, sepultura, 
> misa, y procesion: el tercero, y quarto la especulativa, y 
> práctica del canto figurado, y de organo, segun el moderno 
> estilo; y el quinto las nueve lamentaciones, y la bendicion 
> del cirio, vestidas, ó adornadas de cláusulas sobre su mismo 
> canto-llano. Madrid: Por D. Joachin Ibarra ... se hallará en 
> la librería de Gerónymo Solano. 1777 (The first 75 pages is a 
> manual on how to sing Gregorian Chant, complete with a 
> Guidonian Hand; the other 500+ pages consist purely of 
> Gregorian Chant. I've digitized the manual section.)
> 
> Rituals of the Burgundian Court under Charles the Bold, 
> handwritten. (Wholly photographed) Written by Olivier de la 
> Marche in the mid-1400's, translated into Spanish at the end 
> of that century, and then copied much later; this copy was 
> done ca 1598. About 2/3 is rituals, and the remainder 
> consists of court officials and their pay rates.
> 
> 
> Pamphlets:
> 
> Absdorf Rentbook, 1529. (Wholly photographed) These documents 
> are two extensive land- registers of the villages of Absdorf 
> and Intzledorf, near St. Pölten in southern Austria, contains 
> a mass of information on local rents and dues, and details of 
> the produce of the area (mainly wine, cereal, saffron, hens, 
> cheese, hay and garden produce).
> 
> Carta Executoria de Hidualga, 1593, Madrid, of Phillip II of 
> Spain. (One magnificent illumination in the front, followed 
> by 90+ pages of text. Wholly photographed.) A patent of 
> nobility in favour of Donna Guiomar de Alarcon Ulloa from the 
> town of Jaén in Andalucia; the daughter of deceased parents 
> Diego Fernandez de Ulloa and Donna Catalina de Quintana Ulloa.
> 
> Pruebas de hidalguía, 1568, Spain. (Wholly photographed) 
> Andrés Blasquez wishes to have his claim to nobility (i.e., 
> his hidalguía) confirmed and here presents his substantiating 
> case to the authorities in the audiencia of Granada. Lots of 
> calligraphy but no illumination.
> 
> Unicum (Notary's handbook), 1535, Bologna. (Partly 
> photographed) The register comprises in chronological order 
> contracts, various agreements (such as marriage settlements) 
> and wills that the notary had written out for himself as a 
> record of his various deeds and other documents. (About ten 
> pages, mostly near the beginning, digitized. In a very casual 
> hand that occasionally descends to the level of legibility of 
> a modern doctor's scribbled prescriptions.)
> 



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